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Discrimination in/by At-Large Districts

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Do you believe that at-large districts are discriminatory? Why or why not?

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On a federal level, at-large districts are an inevitable by-product of the system of representation delineated in the US Constitution, i.e. when population levels in a congressional district drop below a certain threshold, the district is "redrawn" to establish a proper ratio of citizenry to congress people. "At-large" districts are simply districts which comprise the whole of the formerly-subdivided governmental unit, e.g. a state, such as Vermont, Delaware, Wyoming or Alaska. If ...

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